Undergarment



A. WERNER..

UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18. 1919.

1,316,989. Patented Sept. 23,1919.

ALEXANDER WERNER, 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

UNDERGARMEN '1'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

Application filed March 18, 1919. Serial No. 283,308.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER WERNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improved combination undergarment adapted to serve as a single substitute for the separate undershirt, waist, drawers, and skirt commonly employed, as fully described in connection with the accompanying drawing and specifically defined in the subjoined claim.

Figure 1 is a front view of a preferred embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. 7

Fig. 3 is an enlarged partial view showing the shoulder construction.

Fig. 4 is a separate view of the shoulder strap.

Fig. 5 shows the garment as it appears when worn.

Referring to the drawing, which shows a garment particularly designed for young girls, 1 represents the shirt portion thereof preferably formed of a tubularly knitted fabric so as to comfortably conform to the body of the wearer, and 2 represents a drawers portion preferably of somewhat stiffer woven fabric to give proper support to an outer garment such as is ordinarily given by a separate skirt.

The tubularly knitted shirt 1 has secured to each side thereof a supporting tape of nonelastic material which forms an upper loop 15 above the open top of the knitted fabric to serve as a shoulder strap, and a lower portion 16 provided with a skirt-attaching button 23 and a lower drawers-attaching button 18 and terminating in a loosely depending end 17 adapted for attachment of a stocking garter. The front and rear low-neck portions 1.2 and 13 of the top of this knitted fabric between the upwardly extending shoulder strap loops 15, and the opposite arm-openings on the outside of the latter,

- are each neatly shaped by carrying the adjacent edge portions of the fabric upward With the tape and securing them to the latter, with ornamental edgin around each shaped opening, as indicated. Additional su porting tapes shown at 19 and 20 are provic ed with skirt-attaching buttons 22 and 21 arranged in line with the side buttons 23.

The lower portion of the knitted fabric 1 is formed with a V-shaped front extension 10 serving as a yielding abdominal covering and providing downwardly convergin edges to which the correspondingly formed front of the drawers portion of my combination garment are secured as shown. These drawers are made up of wide leg portions 3, 3 adapted to provide the fullness required for normally providing a skirt effect, and they are arranged approximately at rightangles to the converging'edges of the V- shaped extension 10 and to each other, forming a central line of junction below said front extension 10 to a low-down crotch .4 near the adjacent lower ends of the legs: While the rear junction thereof at the top is formed with a down-folding flat portion 56, adapted to be detachably secured to the lower buttons 18 on the shirt tapes and providing side openings in the top portions of the legs 3-3 for the passage of the depending stocking supports 17 of the shirt into the respective legs.

As indicated in Fig. 5 my applied undergarment combines an undershirt and drawers in a single structure serving also the purposes of the additional underwaist and underskirt commonly employed, with the comfort aflorded by extending the knitted fabric of the shirt over the abdomen, and the advantage of easily connecting the stockings to the shoulder-carried garment within the ample legs of drawers and so as to give to the latter the free spread required to provide the skirt efl'ect indicated.

WVhat I claim is A combination undergarment comprising a knitted shirt portion the front of which forms a V-shaped bottom extension and provided with stocking-supporting tapes depending on opposite sides thereof; and a separately formed drawers having relatively ing tapes above the depending portions of Wide leg portions arranged at approximately the latter, and said dependingtape portions right angles to the respective edges of said extending into the respective leg portions of 10 V-shaped extension and permanently secured the secured drawers. V

in front to the latter; the rear top portion .Intestimony whereof I afliX my signature.

of said drawers formin a downsfoldi'ng flap a I o v detachahly secured to said s'tOCking-support- ALEXANDER W'ERl TER-.-

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